[4-28-2022] Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage “This or That” Quiz Question: Which chemical element was discovered first?
We have put both correct (right side) and wrong (left side) options below. This will help you in determining the correct answer. The correct answers (1-10) are in bold (blue).
- Xenon …….. Zinc
- Calcium …….. Nickel
- Sodium …….. Arsenic
- Vanadium …….. Tin
- Aluminum …….. Bismuth
- Indium …….. Chlorine
- Germanium …….. Tungsten
- Iodine …….. Silver
- Helium …….. Sulfur
- Lithium …….. Platinum
If your quiz has different options, you can look into the following table to find the correct answers. The elements are sorted by their discovery year. (Ref)
List of the 118 chemical elements and their discovery date:
Rank | Element | Earliest use |
1 | Copper | 9000 BC |
2 | Lead | 7000 BC |
3 | Gold | Before 6000 BC |
4 | Silver | Before 5000 BC |
5 | Iron | Before 5000 BC |
6 | Carbon | 3750 BC |
7 | Tin | 3500 BC |
8 | Sulfur | Before 2000 BC |
9 | Mercury | 1500 BC |
10 | Zinc | Before 1000 BC |
11 | Platinum | 600 BC-AD 200 |
12 | Arsenic | Before AD 815 |
13 | Antimony | Before AD 815 |
14 | Bismuth | Before AD 1000 |
15 | Phosphorus | 1669 |
16 | Cobalt | 1735 |
17 | Nickel | 1751 |
18 | Hydrogen | 1766 |
19 | Oxygen | 1771 |
20 | Nitrogen | 1772 |
21 | Chlorine | 1774 |
22 | Manganese | 1774 |
23 | Molybdenum | 1778 |
24 | Tungsten | 1781 |
25 | Tellurium | 1782 |
26 | Uranium | 1789 |
27 | Titanium | 1791 |
28 | Chromium | 1797 |
29 | Niobium | 1801 |
30 | Tantalum | 1802 |
31 | Palladium | 1802 |
32 | Cerium | 1803 |
33 | Osmium | 1803 |
34 | Iridium | 1803 |
35 | Rhodium | 1804 |
36 | Potassium | 1807 |
37 | Sodium | 1807 |
38 | Barium | 1808 |
39 | Strontium | 1808 |
40 | Calcium | 1808 |
41 | Magnesium | 1808 |
42 | Silicon | 1808 |
43 | Aluminium/Aluminum | 1808 |
44 | Zirconium | 1808 |
45 | Beryllium | 1808 |
46 | Boron | 1808 |
47 | Yttrium | 1808 |
48 | Fluorine | 1810 |
49 | Iodine | 1811 |
50 | Lithium | 1817 |
51 | Cadmium | 1817 |
52 | Selenium | 1817 |
53 | Bromine | 1825 |
54 | Thorium | 1829 |
55 | Vanadium | 1830 |
56 | Lanthanum | 1838 |
57 | Erbium | 1843 |
58 | Terbium | 1843 |
59 | Ruthenium | 1844 |
60 | Caesium | 1860 |
61 | Rubidium | 1861 |
62 | Thallium | 1861 |
63 | Indium | 1863 |
64 | Helium | 1868 |
65 | Gallium | 1875 |
66 | Ytterbium | 1878 |
67 | Holmium | 1878 |
68 | Thulium | 1879 |
69 | Scandium | 1879 |
70 | Samarium | 1879 |
71 | Gadolinium | 1880 |
72 | Praseodymium | 1885 |
73 | Neodymium | 1885 |
74 | Germanium | 1886 |
75 | Dysprosium | 1886 |
76 | Argon | 1894 |
77 | Europium | 1896 |
78 | Krypton | 1898 |
79 | Neon | 1898 |
80 | Xenon | 1898 |
81 | Polonium | 1898 |
82 | Radium | 1898 |
83 | Radon | 1899 |
84 | Actinium | 1902 |
85 | Lutetium | 1906 |
86 | Protactinium | 1913 |
87 | Hafnium | 1922 |
88 | Rhenium | 1925 |
89 | Technetium | 1937 |
90 | Francium | 1939 |
91 | Neptunium | 1940 |
92 | Astatine | 1940 |
93 | Plutonium | 1940–1941 |
94 | Curium | 1944 |
95 | Americium | 1944 |
96 | Promethium | 1945 |
97 | Berkelium | 1949 |
98 | Californium | 1950 |
99 | Einsteinium | 1952 |
100 | Fermium | 1952 |
101 | Mendelevium | 1955 |
102 | Lawrencium | 1961 |
103 | Nobelium | 1966 |
104 | Rutherfordium | 1969 |
105 | Dubnium | 1970 |
106 | Seaborgium | 1974 |
107 | Bohrium | 1981 |
108 | Meitnerium | 1982 |
109 | Hassium | 1984 |
110 | Darmstadtium | 1994 |
111 | Roentgenium | 1994 |
112 | Copernicium | 1996 |
113 | Flerovium | 1998 |
114 | Livermorium | 2000 |
115 | Oganesson | 2002 |
116 | Moscovium | 2003 |
117 | Nihonium | 2003–2004 |
118 | Tennessine | 2009 |
Please comment if you find a different answer.